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Before “O” preemed Monday at the Loews Century Plaza, Lions Gate Films president Tom Ortenberg told the audience his company had acquired the controversial pic from Miramax when the latter decided the film “was a little too edgy, too provocative, too dangerous.”

Ortenberg concluded by saying: “So we made a deal with Miramax. As you can imagine, that was really easy.”

Later at the Moomba after-party Ortenberg said the problem Miramax had with the “Othello”-based teen pic, which he called a “young adult thriller,” was “not that there aren’t many more violent films getting released every week, it’s that this one was too real.”

Ortenberg then added: “I wish I could take credit for making it.”

Director Tim Blake Nelson said he “sympathized” with Miramax’s post-Columbine qualms over the film and felt a key point with Harvey Weinstein was the topper didn’t want to appear a “hypocrite” — releasing “O” while actively supporting the Democratic party, which was attacking teen movie violence.

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